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		<title>Peep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey.
So I&#8217;m hoping to warm up and revive the blog again in a little bit.  It was never my intention to abandon the blog, though it may seem that way.  Especially since the microblogging stuff is pretty convenient these days, I have spent most of the year doing regular &#8211; though smaller &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/12/26/peep/</link>
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		<title>End of an Era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, for anybody who doesn&#8217;t know by now, I do want to mention that my time with Cisco is coming to a close.  Our team got cut a month ago as part of a restructure.  We thought that, being a relatively new team with a product that we thought was strategically important to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/03/27/end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that surprised me when I was at SxSW Interactive last year was how all these people, who&#8217;s generally personally and professionally invested in &#8220;new media,&#8221; practically lived and breathe Twitter.  While most of my friends, generally considered to be normal everyday people, never heard of it (at the time, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/03/03/whats-the-point/</link>
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		<title>Change is Hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The changing of the Presidents can be jarring, especially after you&#8217;ve had the same one for two terms.  It&#8217;s a bit like what happens immediately after the New Year when you keep writing &#8220;2008&#8243; on your checks on accident for a while even though it&#8217;s 2009, except like ten times worst.  You have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/01/21/change-is-hard/</link>
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		<title>Explain This to Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone who flies more often than me (which is probably everybody) please explain this to me.
If I fly from Austin to X with a nearly three hour layover in Dallas, it could cost me $y.  However, if I want to simply drive to Dallas and take the plane from there to X, they want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/01/16/explain-this-to-me/</link>
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		<title>iTunes will soon be DRM free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is huge news.
Apple will soon allow record companies more flexible pricing of songs on their iTunes music store.  Songs may be priced at 69 cents, 99 cents, or $1.29.  In exchange for that, however, iTunes will make every available song completely DRM-free.
This essentially heralds the death of digital music purchases with DRM. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/01/06/itunes-will-soon-be-drm-free/</link>
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		<title>Review of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was all right.  Mostly.
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		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2009/01/02/review-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>Good times all around</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone had a good Christmas and has had a chance to wind down enough to lose the stresses of the past year.  I have been in my hometown of Nacogdoches the past few days and it has been a great release for me.  It helps that I have been functioning on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/12/30/good-times-all-around/</link>
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		<title>The Googlers have been to Nacogdoches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To my surprise today, I discovered that the GoogleMaps Streetview people have apparently visited my home town of Nacogdoches.  Those Google people are serious about this stuff.
Look, it&#8217;s my old house.  The interesting thing to note is that they actually didn&#8217;t go any further south down the road.
And look, it&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s favorite hang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/12/14/the-googlers-have-been-to-nacogdoches/</link>
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		<title>Change of Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ve always been selective about what I put on here because I wanted to be careful to not put up anything that no-one would care about.  However, clearly that hasn&#8217;t worked since I usually get so worked up over certain music-related things that I feel like I have to put them up, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/12/08/change-of-policy/</link>
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		<title>Rush &#8211; Snakes &amp; Arrows Live DVD is out</title>
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Even though it is Tuesday, which is the usual day for new music releases, the new Rush DVD actually came out in stores yesterday.  The latest release is a full concert recording of Rush on the first leg of their Snaked &#038; Arrows tour.  The &#8220;soundtrack&#8221; was released as a live album earlier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/11/25/rush-snakes-arrows-live-dvd-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Genesis 1970-1975 Box Set</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago, I finally got the last of the Genesis box sets.  This one covers the albums released between 1970-1975, which was the time period that is considered the &#8220;classic&#8221; Genesis period which saw them at their most experimental as pioneers of progressive rock and featured Peter Gabriel on lead vocals.

The albums [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/11/20/genesis-1970-1975-box-set/</link>
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		<title>My New Toy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave myself an early Christmas gift this year.  In some circles, though, that might be called &#8220;spending without discretion.&#8221;     My laptop became mostly useless to me after it decided that it no longer wanted to recognize its own internal hard drives (even working ones), so it gave me the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/11/18/my-new-toy/</link>
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		<title>New Marillion album out now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited new double-album by one of my favorite bands, Marillion, is out now and currently only available to order from their website.  The album is called Happiness Is The Road, and the buzz is that it is as good, if not better, than their 2004 masterpiece Marbles.  The band had released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/10/22/new-marillion-album-out-now/</link>
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		<title>In the beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for a history lesson in music&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/10/20/in-the-beginning/</link>
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		<title>Rush&#8217;s &#8220;Permanent Waves&#8221; for a buck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nearly been two months since my last post, and it&#8217;s roughly about the same thing!
So apparently Amazon&#8217;s MP3 store is doing a &#8220;daily deal&#8221; thing in which they sell old and classic albums for really cheap, and that seems to be how I caught Steely Dan&#8217;s &#8220;Aja&#8221; that way.  Today, they are selling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/10/17/rushs-permanent-waves-for-a-buck/</link>
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		<title>Steely Dan&#8217;s &#8220;Aja&#8221; for a buck!?!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably a fluke, and maybe they&#8217;ll correct it soon, or whatever.  However, for some reason, Amazon is offering the classic Steely Dan album &#8220;Aja&#8221;, the WHOLE THING, as a high-quality MP3 download for 99 cents.  That&#8217;s a great deal no matter how you slice it.  &#8220;Aja&#8221; is probably Steely Dan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/08/24/steely-dans-aja-for-a-buck/</link>
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		<title>Rush classic &#8220;Moving Pictures&#8221; will be released to Rock Band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The seminal Rush album &#8220;Moving Pictures&#8221;, which includes their best known classics like &#8220;YYZ&#8221;, &#8220;Limelight&#8221;, and &#8220;Tom Sawyer&#8221;, will be available for download and play on Rock Band this Tuesday.  All tracks are supposedly taken from their masters.  What should be truly interesting is that it will include the rarely-played live but often-requested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/08/23/rush-classic-moving-pictures-will-be-released-to-rock-band/</link>
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		<title>Note to Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Lenovo IdeaPad netbooks are already out available for order.
Coupon code for 15% off good until end of month: USPIDEAPAD15
(You may want to wait for the announcement of the new Dell netbooks, which should be any day now&#8230;)
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		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/08/19/note-to-self/</link>
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		<title>New album from David Byrne &amp; Brian Eno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got tickets to see David Byrne at the Paramount here in Austin.  The show is billed as &#8220;David Byrne performs the songs of David Byrne &#038; Brian Eno&#8221;.  Many years ago, they put out an album that became an underground classic called &#8220;My Life in the Bush of Ghosts&#8221;.  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/08/18/new-album-from-david-byrne-brian-eno/</link>
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		<title>Genesis: New DVD &amp; Gets the Country Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s a return to posting without my incessant rambling about Genesis?
Since I last mentioned, the DVD for last year&#8217;s reunion tour has come out.  It&#8217;s a three disc set with the concert on the first two discs and well-done documentary on the third.  Needless to say, it rocks so hard that it makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/08/13/genesis-new-dvd-gets-the-country-treatment/</link>
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		<title>New Stuffs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woo!  My first post here in like&#8230;what&#8230;four months?
This past month in particular have been really busy.  I&#8217;ve been traveling a lot and probably having the most active summer I&#8217;ve had in a while.  I&#8217;ve been taking baby steps to polish some of the stuff I have going on the web.  I put up a news/blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/08/12/471/</link>
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		<title>UberJonesin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was waiting for some work on my tires to get done this morning, I went to a nearby Starbucks to get breakfast.  I&#8217;m actually not a coffee drinker.  I get through my mornings completely on my own morning peppiness (or what I can scrounge of it).  When I&#8217;m at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/04/11/uberjonesin/</link>
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		<title>Administrivia FTW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, the site has been shuffled around a bit and I&#8217;ve toyed with the design (i.e. picked out a new theme) and have essentially decided to make Wordpress front and center (not like it wasn&#8217;t already, really.)  I&#8217;m also going to try again with the separate music blog, which I&#8217;m working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/04/04/administrivia-ftw/</link>
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		<title>Rock Band for Wii Release Date Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this article, Rock Band will be available for the Wii on June 22.  However, at this time, it seems likely that both online play and downloadable content will not be likely.  Hopefully, they will be able to work these things in anyways.
On the upside, getting a PS3 seems to become a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisstrangeengine.com/webblah/2008/03/25/rock-band-for-wii-release-date-announced/</link>
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